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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:08:58PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> schrieb: |
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> > > Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet. |
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> > > But: true, it might change between tar versions. |
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> > The main offender is the compression program, not tar. |
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> hmm, I'm exclusively using bzip2 and never had these problems |
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> yet. maybe it depends on the compressor type. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0025.html#the-problem-in-detail |
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Note also that bzip2 had another change in output after that |
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release- my memory is failing me a bit, but it was roughly a |
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a reduction of their hash size to fix a CVE- either way, same thing, |
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differing output. |
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It happens, and further, is a well known potential for compressors. |
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~harring |
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